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issues to do with later life. We work closely with Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland. Summary and key points Although pensioner poverty has fallen since the mid-1990s, there are still 1.6 million pensioners ... Age UK provided support for a paper by Portes looking at intergenerational equity. This sets out key questions for framing policy analysis which include: fiscal policy, labour markets, pensions, social
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number 6825798). The registered address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 Key recommendations The Government should be required to monitor and report regularly on the outcome ... advice services, both now and in the future. The need for monitoring of outcomes 3. For Age UK, the key test for the success of the reforms is that they should deliver good outcomes for pension savers. Pension
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and younger workers, and the truth is that, regardless of the type of work, a strong economy is the key ingredient for anyone to be in employment. In reality older and younger jobseekers are unlikely to ... before retirement, while more than two-fifths do not think they will ever make up this shortfall.18 A key contributor to this lack of readiness is inadequate pension provision, often dating back to earlier
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YEAR AMBITIONS ON QUALITY The definition of quality in health care, enshrined in law, includes three key aspects: patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience. A high quality health service ... support families, carers and communities; that promoting wellbeing and independence need to be the key outcomes of care; and that patients, their families and carers are often ‘experts by experience’. As
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about fears and feelings and feel very awkward about mentioning important personal issues such as toilets and keeping clean. Barriers to having conversations about death 9 10 11 You will have an idea of ... death we worry that we may be tired or cold, thirsty or hungry, in pain, wonder how we will go to the toilet or maintain our personal hygiene? What if I need a hug or my hand held and no one knows? Sometimes
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............................................................................................ 3 2. Key points and recommendations ....................................................................... ... point in the claimant journey, ideally after a six month spell of unemployment, is essential. 6 2. Key points and recommendations Fuller Working Lives As the Government commissions the Work and Health
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Report Summer 2015 Prof José Iparraguirre Age UK Chief Economist’s Report Summer 2015 Page | 1 Key insights in this issue Inequality The Budget did little to help to close the gap between the richest ... includes a comment on long-term unemployment, redundancies and re-employment, we also focus on two key economic aspects in the lives of many older people in the UK: inequality and poverty, and benefit take-up
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interventions and work with people with dementia, and has many useful references and insights. A key finding is: The full report can be found here: www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/For-professionals/Research/Cognitive_ ... by Innovations in Dementia will help you to do a basic audit of your premises – and highlight the key areas and issues that need to be considered. www.innovationsindementia.org.uk/HowToDoAnAudit.pdf Design
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version of the Part 10 Code of Practice (Advocacy) (“the Code”). This article briefly outlines the key changes regarding adult advocacy, but does not cover the substantial changes to the section on children ... One of the most important changes is to the definition of independent professional advocacy. The key section in Chapter 8 now reads: Independent professional advocacy involves a professional, trained
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1 This is the fifth annual survey undertaken since 2020 by Age Cymru and the key organisations that represent older people in Wales. It’s important that Welsh Government and others hear from older people ... and support us to raise issues that impact older people with the media, politicians, and many other key stakeholders. Want to become an Age Cymru storyteller? Leave your details above and say that you’d
